Iran ‘kidnappings’: Police includes plaints of 2 more

The police have included the complaints of two more youths who had been allegedly kidnapped along with Amritpal Singh in the FIR while continuing with the investigation of the case registered against certain travel agents on the statement of the family of Hoshiarpur youth Amritpal. He had been kidnapped in Iran while going to Australia through dunki route.

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The special investigation team (SIT) formed to investigate the case was continuously conducting raids to arrest the accused agents. It is worth mentioning that about two weeks ago, on the basis of a complaint given by Amritpal’s family, the Model Town police station had registered a case against three travel agents, including a woman. The said travel agents have been absconding since then after the case was registered.

In this case, the complaints regarding two other kidnapped youths Jaspal Singh of Nawanshahr and Husanpreet Singh of Dhuri have also been included and the case was being investigated. The SIT formed by the district police chief was continuously conducting raids to investigate the case and arrest the culprits. Meanwhile, today raids were conducted by the teams in Hoshiarpur as well as other districts, including Jalandhar, to nab the culprits.

In this regard, when SHO of Model Town police station Gursahib Singh was asked about it, he admitted that the complaints regarding two other kidnapped youths of Nawanshahr and Dhuri had also been included in the investigation. He said that continuous raids were being conducted at probable hideouts to arrest the culprits.

The three abducted youths were dropped off in Iran by travel agents of Hoshiarpur on the pretext of sending them to Australia, from where they had been abducted.

According to the victim families, the last call came from the youths on May 16 and the kidnappers had demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore to release them. But when the families expressed their inability, they asked for Rs 54 lakh. On May 16, a case was registered against travel agents Dheeraj Atwal, Kamal Atwal and a woman by the Model Town police station on the complaint of Amritpal’s family members.